Paulette L. Pepin, Ph.D.

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Ph.D., Fordham University, Bronx, NY. History

M.A., Fordham University, Bronx, NY. History

B.A., Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT

About Paulette

Dr. Paulette L. Pepin, a Professor of History, teaches courses in European and western
civilization. She has also taught a joint-college course, Tolerance in America, with criminal justice professor, Associate Dean Dr. David Schroeder. They are currently facilitators
for the “Finding Alois” project.

Dr. Pepin's main focus of research has been in the field of Spanish medieval history.
She has completed a biography of María de Molina (1259-1321), a queen and regent for
the Kingdom of Castile-León. The book, the only biography of this queen in English,
was published on 11 March 2016.

Besides reading about medieval history, Dr. Pepin enjoys reading mystery and spy novels
written by such authors as Alan Furst and Daniel Silva. She also is a big Harry Potter
fan and has read all of J.K. Rowling’s books, seen the movies and even visited Harry
Potter World in Orlando, Florida and the Leavesden Studios, England, where the films
were made.

Traveling to Europe is also something Dr. Pepin especially enjoys. In June 2014, she
and Dr. Rosa Mo lead a study abroad program to Paris, where 16 University of New Haven
students lived and studied for 4 ½ weeks. Dr. Pepin taught a World War I Centenary
course and Dr. Mo taught a course on the effects of war on nutrition.

While teaching in Paris Pepin and Mo traveled to Vienna, Austria where they toured
this magnificent and picturesque city and attended a performance of Richard Strauss’ Ariadne Auf Naxos at Vienna State Opera House. Dr. Pepin was also able to do some archival reach at
the Archive of the Jewish Community of Vienna for the “Finding Aloisi” project while
she was in Vienna.

In June 2017, Dr. Pepin and Dr. Chris Haynes led another study abroad program dealing
with World War II and the French Resistance and current French immigration policies.
Dr. Pepin is also looking forward to future study abroad in England dealing with World War II and Espionage.

Published Books and Articles

Books

Pepin, Paulette L. María de Molina Queen and Regent: Life and Rule in Castile-León, 1259-1321. Lexington Books, 11 March 2016.

Pepin, Paulette L. Conciliar Church Policy during the Reign of Fernando IV, King of Castile- León, 1295-1312. Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.

Book Editor

Devlin, William and Janick, Herbert, The History of Danbury (Western Connecticut State University Press, 2013).

Scholarly Articles

In Progress: Castilian Royal Chronicles and the Church Councils 1302-1311. An analysis of the Castilian king, Fernando IV’s, royal chronicle and absence of
evidence concerning these important church councils. To be completed by January 2017
and submitted to a peer reviewed journal.

Assessing the 1295 Cortes: Townsmen as Resisters! - To be completed spring 2019.

Pepin, Paulette L. “A Case Study: A 13th century Marital Contract and its Consequences
for the Kingdom of Castile-León.” The Historian 75 (2013): 806-819.

Pepin, Paulette L. "The Castilian Church and the Cortes of 1295." The Catholic Historical Review 87 (2001): 165-184.

Pepin, Paulette L. “The Council of Peñafiel, 1302: The Castilian Church’s Reassertion
of its libertas ecclesiastica.” In On the Social Origins of Medieval Institutions: Essays in Honor of Joseph F. O’Callaghan, edited by Donald J. Kagay and Theresa M. Vann, 243-262. Leiden: Brill, 1998.

Book Reviews

In Progress: Review of The Wise King: A Christian Prince, Muslim Spain, and the Birth of the Renaissance by Simon R. Doubleday. Submitted I July 2016 to The Historian.